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Liz | 27 | 🇪🇸🇬🇧 ~ chasing ferris wheels ~

[taylorinlove]

the original lyric being peter leaving wendy instead of peter losing wendy... much to think about

[prosesarered]

remember to stream and buy cardigan and folklore, okay.

[jakeperalta]

i’ve been seeing lots about the parallels between folklore and reputation but i’m just gonna put it out there: folklore and debut as two sides of the same coin. they cover a lot of the same ideas (summer love, first love, infidelity, childhood) and both are rooted in the storytelling of both taylor’s and other people’s experiences. debut is the young, naive perspective and folklore is the more mature, darker version.

[boniver]

debut is taylor looking at other people’s experiences and imagining herself in them before she had much experience of her own. folklore is taylor looking at other people’s experiences and reflecting on them through the lens of someone who has been through a lot and learned from her experiences.

[musicjunkie29]

I don’t know if there are any Bon Iver fans reading this but I got questions. Is it true he normally doesn’t sing like he does in exile...like usually he sings much higher!?!? I heard Aaron Dessner talking about this...and I am like...why...why would you withhold this gift...I...

[taylorinlove]

Yeah. I don’t know if he’s never sung like this because I’m not super familiar with his entire discography, but yes to me it was a surprise hearing his voice sound like that in Exile, I personally wasn’t expecting it. Here’s a song Taylor’s mentioned liking before, and this is what I’m used hearing from him:

[umlindsay]

Betty 🤝 “August” 🤝 James

representations of taylor at different parts

of her life and in different relationships

[taylorinlove]

TS1-TS7′s bridges walked so folklore could run

[taylorinlove]

The fact that she managed to squeeze in almost all of these songs 3 verses, bridges, chorus, pre chorus and outro all at once. She said song structure what?!?! 😂

I know! That’s another great thing, that she threw traditional structures out the window and did whatever the hell she wanted. Like Illicit Affairs’ choruses are all different from one another. Exile’s ending is just a chaotic unstructured back and forth. The outro of August. The whole of Cardigan basically. And more. It’s just fantastic songwriting through and through.

[taylorinlove]

folklore is a lyrical masterpiece from start to finish

[taylorinlove]

don’t call me kid, don’t call me baby, look at this godforsaken mess that you made me

[taylorinlove]

and this might be the funniest thing anyone has said about folklore yet:

Girl, I did not understand the concept of the album. My ass was over here thinking Miss Taylor Swift was in a relationship with a bisexual man who had a side dude and she dipped in the lady pond. Girl, I was all kinds of lost.

go watch her two reaction videos, they’re hilarious 😂

[taylorinlove]

literally me all day every day since folklore dropped:

[butiknewyou]

one of my favorite lyrics on folklore is “i knew you tried to change the ending; peter losing wendy” for multiple reasons. one of these is that in three words, she showcases the maturity difference between betty and james; betty says that despite her youth, james is one of the few things she was sure about (”when you are young they assume you know nothing, but i knew you”), while james is the opposite, using age as an excuse for hurting betty (”i’m only seventeen, i don’t know anything”), and of course, peter pan is the boy who refused to grow up. but the main reason i think this lyric is so incredible is because at the end of peter pan, we find out that despite not having seen peter in many, many years, wendy tells the story to her children and grandchildren so that their adventure will always be remembered. this is the very definition of the word folklore and ties in perfectly to taylor’s album foreword where she said that she wants us to keep the stories she tells on the album and pass them along. with one line, she manages to encompass not only an important piece of betty’s and james’s relationship, but the key to the entire album.

[taylorinlove]

Passed down like folk songs, the love lasts so long

And just like a folk song, our love will be passed on

Passed down like folk songs, our love lasts so long

[cellphonehippie]

FOLKLORE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS CARDIGAN (1993). A coming of age film retelling the story of 3 characters and their journey through the summer. 

[brandnewdress]

hoax is THE most underrated song on folklore

[whenemmafallsinlove]

poor inez. i’m officially enlisting in the inez defense squad

[taylorinlove]

my favorite theory of the day: betty is taylor, and james is taylor, and august is taylor. she’s been each of these characters at different points in her life. she’s been betty, seeing a love leaving her then coming back asking for forgiveness. she’s been august, loving someone who didn’t love her back. and she’s been james, running away with someone while having someone else on her mind. she is all three characters, and it’s three different stories intertwined together as one